Friendship: How the Pandemic’s Effects have Changed the Ways We Interact

The pandemic has caused the way we interact with one another and form friendships to change drastically. The social isolation we all experienced during lockdown in the Spring has caused many to change their friendship habits.  According to a BBC article entitled “New research suggests lockdowns are re-shaping our social networks. What does that meanContinue reading “Friendship: How the Pandemic’s Effects have Changed the Ways We Interact”

Invention and Sorrow: the role of literature in times of disconnection.

By Nora Cornell • 8 November 2020 “What I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath these faces, … was power and sorrow, both unadmitted, unrealized, the power of inventors, the sorrow of the disconnected” (90). This line, a near-throwaway about some American tourists,Continue reading “Invention and Sorrow: the role of literature in times of disconnection.”